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With Alibaba, Pivotal and Lightbend on board, Reactive flexes its ROI muscle in the microservices world – TechCrunch

Cyber AttacksBy Jessica Venkat October 15, 2019

Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane, a Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity seed fund. More posts by this contributor Investors are waking up to the emotional struggle of startup founders Lessons from cybersecurity exits The Linux Foundation recently announced the launch of the Reactive Foundation. Its founding members are Alibaba, Lightbend, Pivotal…

NASA engineer says Viking missions discovered life on Mars in the 1970s

Web technologyBy Jessica Venkat October 15, 2019

Gilbert Levin, a NASA engineer who worked on the Viking missions, says he’s “convinced we found evidence of life of Mars in the 1970s.” In a Scientific American article published today, Levin explains how two separate craft landed on the surface of the red planet and conducted a series of tests to determine if there…

Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Security Patches for 82 Flaws in Various Products

Web Security NewsBy Jessica Venkat October 15, 2019

No, it’s not a patch Tuesday. It’s the third Tuesday of the month, and as The Hacker News shared an early heads-up late last week on Twitter, Adobe today finally released pre-announced out-of-band security updates to patch a total of 82 security vulnerabilities across its various products. The affected products that received security patches today…

The 9 Customer Service Tips That Matter

Cyber protection and web SecurityBy Jessica Venkat October 15, 2019

Customer service is a secret weapon.

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Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea

Content Accuracy Factors You Should Optimize For

Internet marketingBy Jessica Venkat October 15, 2019

Content Accuracy has been a recurring topic in the SEO community, especially now because Google has revealed it as a ranking factor. It has been the talk of the town since Gary Illyes from Google has said so at PubCon, a well-known SEO conference. Content Accuracy is especially important for YMYL sites because according to…

TiVo’s ad-supported streaming service, TiVo Plus, launches today – TechCrunch

Cyber AttacksBy Jessica Venkat October 15, 2019

TiVo’s answer to The Roku Channel, TiVo Plus, is launching today. The company had already unveiled its plans for ad-supported streaming earlier this month with the debut of two new models of its DVR, the TiVo Edge. Like The Roku Channel, TUBI, Vudu’s Movies on Us, and others, TiVo Plus is available to stream for…

China’s social credit system isn’t about scoring citizens — it’s a massive API

Web technologyBy Jessica Venkat October 15, 2019

China’s emerging social credit system (SCS): rarely has a topic been more hotly discussed, and more poorly understood. When most people think about the SCS, they imagine it primarily as a scoring mechanism, a way for the central government to rank China’s citizens and companies based on their behavior. But that’s a skewed misconception of what…

Firefox Blocks Inline and Eval JavaScript on Internal Pages to Prevent Injection Attacks

Web Security NewsBy Jessica Venkat October 15, 2019

In an effort to mitigate a large class of potential cross-site scripting issues in Firefox, Mozilla has blocked execution of all inline scripts and potentially dangerous eval-like functions for built-in “about: pages” that are the gateway to sensitive preferences, settings, and statics of the browser. Firefox browser has 45 such internal locally-hosted about pages, some…

How to Record Audio on Mac: Two Simple Strategies

Cyber protection and web SecurityBy Jessica Venkat October 15, 2019

Whether you’re taking a voice lesson, interviewing your role model, or trying to send a guitar riff to a friend, it’s helpful to have a decent audio recording device.

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Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea

True Balance raises $23M to bring its payments app to more small cities and towns in India – TechCrunch

Cyber AttacksBy Jessica Venkat October 15, 2019

South Korean startup True Balance, which operates an eponymous financial services app aimed at tens of millions of users in small cities and towns in India, has closed a new financing round as it looks to court more first time users in the world’s second largest internet market. True Balance said on Tuesday that it…

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